On Sunday, December 15, 2019 at 8:52:02 PM UTC-8, Tim McNamara wrote:
On Saturday, December 14, 2019 at 10:34:49 AM UTC-8, AMuzi wrote:

Party positions have changed a lot.

Indeed, but that is not new. It has happened before and will happen
again.

Indeed, the Trump realignment of the Republican Party may end up being a
huge shift in the political landscape that leaves actual conservatives
and moderates without a political home other than the Libertarians. The
reactionary lurch to the left of the Democrats may do the same for
centrists/moderate liberals.

I suspect that the party powers that be among the GOP are hoping to
weather the Trumpian ****storm and reassert themselves after he is out
of office. It will take decades to repair the damage to both party and
country. I could see the two party system fracturing into three or four.

Tim, Trump's positions are mostly moderate Democrat from the 1980's and 90's. These coincided with moderate Republicans since then. "Real" conservatives are pretty much radicals who now believe in the near total elimination of government - the Tea Party for instance.

Because of Trump's actual agenda and not the one the Slime Stream Media announces most of the country is on Trump's side.